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Rock Band 3 (2010)

Duration: 5:28

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This was one of the last singles, and the last music video, released before FOB went on hiatus, and boy does it feel like it. This is a song for the end credits if there ever was one. Not only does it have callbacks to most of their previous hits during the outro, they're all performed by pop-emo contemporaries from singers of bands like Panic!, The Academy Is, The Cab, Cobra Starship, and the most contemporary of all, Elvis Costello!

Unfortunately this song, and every other song from Folie A Deux, has fallen off the radar, partially because of the baffling success of their reunion/arena electro-rock period, and partially because this album cycle was kicked off by I Don't Care, likely their worst song until they started doing shit like sampling the Munsters theme. But even as a non-fan, I can appreciate the gravitas of this song considering what would happen not only to the band, but pop-punk and pretty much all of rock from 2008 onwards. The song is lyrically about existential depression, the outro features thundering gods of pop-punk who would all be gone from the public eye soon after, the video ends with Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump hugging it out, an uncharacteristic move from a band whose visuals were loaded with irony and artifice, it all points to the feeling of a grand finale, whether or not the band knew their time was coming to an end. Now we just have to hope Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons join forces to write a song called Frankly My Dear I Don't Give A Damn, or something.

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